GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
	Difference: 8 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 7 (37%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 77 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 570 should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a lot (more or less 38%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41072 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be a lot (approximately 93%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon RX 570, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 34912 (93%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.